A topic I’ve always been interested in – what do we think the BP nominees for this year or years past would be if only one branch could vote for them? My guesses, arbitrarily choosing nine as the number of nominees:

DirectorsArrival
Elle
Hell or High Water
Jackie
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Silence
Toni Erdmann

ActorsArrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight

WritersArrival
Fences
Hell or High Water
Jackie
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Silence
20th Century Women

Ha! Great topic. I’d be interested to see everyone’s thoughts, though your list seems spot on.

Directors branch do not love war movies that are not done in artistic ways. And looks for any type of excuse to snub those boys/genre movies. Sometimes some of them get in if they are too undeniable contenders. Acting branch is more basic so it probably would have shown up there.